Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Being the remaining one of two or more.
- adjective Being the remaining ones of several.
- adjective Different from that or those implied or specified.
- adjective Of a different character or quality.
- adjective Of a different time or era either future or past.
- adjective Additional; extra.
- adjective Opposite or contrary; reverse.
- adjective Alternate; second.
- adjective Of the recent past.
- noun The remaining one of two or more.
- noun The remaining ones of several.
- noun A different person or thing.
- noun An additional person or thing.
- noun A person or thing considered to represent or epitomize difference or an outgroup. Used with the.
- pronoun A different or an additional person or thing.
- pronoun People aside from oneself.
- adverb In another way; otherwise; differently.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Same as
either and or. - Otherwise.
- Second: as, every other day; every other week.
- In particular — Second of two: hence with singular substantives only, and regularly preceded by the. The antecedent correlative to the other is one or the one. In these combinations a possessive pronoun may take the place of the. Also used absolutely without repetition of the noun referred to.
- Second of a pair; hence, left (as opposed to right).
- Second of two opposites; opposite; contrary: as, the other side of the street.
- Second in order of thought, though first or previous in order of fact; hence, next preceding, or (taken substantively) that which immediately preceded.
- Additional; further; hence, besides this (or these, that or those): with or without a clause with than or but following, expressed or understood.
- Different from this (the person or thing in view or under consideration or just specified); belonging to a class, category, or sort outside of, or apart and distinct in identity or character from (that which has been mentioned or is implied); not the same: used with or without a definitive or indefinite word (the, that, an, any, some, etc.) preceding, and often followed (as a comparative) by a clause with than: frequently used also as correlative to this, one, or some preceding: as, he was occupied with other reflections; this man I know, the other man I never saw before; some men seek wealth, other men seek fame.
- The second of two reciprocally, either of the two being considered subject or object in turn: as, each and other; either and other; the one and the other. See
each . - An additional person or thing: in constructions as in def. 3.
- A different person or thing from the one in view or under consideration or just specified: in the same constructions as the adjective, the difference being in the fact that with the adjective a noun is always expressed or obviously implied in the context.
- Same as
either .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- preposition Different from that which, or the one who, has been specified; not the same; not identical; additional; second of two.
- preposition Not this, but the contrary; opposite.
- preposition Alternate; second; -- used esp. in connection with
every . - preposition obsolete Left, as opposed to right.
- preposition [Obs. or Prov. Eng.] some others.
- preposition at a certain time past, not distant, but indefinite; not long ago; recently; rarely, the third day past.
- adverb Otherwise.
- conjunction obsolete Either; -- used with
other oror for its correlative (aseither …or are now used).
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective See other (determiner) below
- adjective
second . - adjective
Alien . - adjective
Different . - noun An other one.
- determiner Not the one previously referred to.
- adverb
Apart from; in the phrase "other than". - adverb obsolete
otherwise - verb transitive To make into an other.
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Herzog was ok if you've only seen "encounters at the edge of the world" but doesnt hold any of his other devices..other than his voice..
Watch This: If Famous Filmmakers Directed the Superbowl? « FirstShowing.net 2010
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Among the items that you cannot sell: Toys and other articles intended for use by children, or any furniture, with paint or other surface coatings containing lead over specified amounts.
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Her lie that the sermon was only about on particularly scary flight was obviously an effort to play down other *other* well-documented unreasonable fear aka phobia.
Ministers and Professional Ethics Steve Caldwell 2009
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On the other end of the spectrum, there are forever going to be new cast members coming aboard, and any time something deviates from the book there will be endless debate over whether or not some *other* scene will deviate as well, based on the changes they made to the first.
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The reason I ask is that, if their argument is that laws apply in virtual worlds to the same extent they apply in other domains of human action, then that sounds pragmatic as far as it goes, but for them to be pragmatists they would also have to acknowledge the limits of law in those *other* non-virtual world domains as well.
The Magic Circle 2007
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Otherwise, I can find no other use for it..other than torturing nurses: I mean, as if cleaning up after an enema isn't enough...make it STICKY....
Learning the Tricks of the Trade Mother Jones RN 2007
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Many things from the lips of others have been preserved, some of which drew tears from eyes unused to weep; while, on the other hand, and in respect of _other_ things, the "water of mirth" has crept into the same eyes.
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-- 'The House of Representatives of the United States consists of 223 members -- all, by _the letter_ of the Constitution, representatives only of _persons_, as 135 of them really are; but the other 88, equally representing the _persons_ of their constituents, by whom they are elected, also represent, under the name of _other persons_, upwards of two and a half millions of _slaves_, held as the
The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Part 3 of 4 American Anti-Slavery Society
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-- 'The House of Representatives of the U. States consists of 223 members -- all, by the _letter_ of the Constitution, representatives only of _persons_, as 135 of them really are; but the other 88, equally representing the _persons_ of their constituents, by whom they are elected, also represent, under the name of _other persons_, upwards of two and a half millions of _slaves_, held as the
The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Part 3 of 4 American Anti-Slavery Society
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_The words and music of a song must fit each other so perfectly that the thought of one is inseparable from the other_.
Writing for Vaudeville Brett Page
giveandgo commented on the word other
the mysterious Island inhabitants on Lost.
October 21, 2008